The UK 2010 Election Thread- Who will/would get your vote?

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SamuelRSmith said:

Kantor said:

Kasz216 said:
I would probably vote Liberal Democrats. I feel like the Authortarian levels of Britain are at a scary high level.

I mean stuff we complain about in the patriot act is stuff that happens in the UK all the time.

Conservative is a close second though based on the "Key issues" i've read between the two so far. I'll keep you up to date on my "non" vote.


Also, what's up with the health care saying "It's for the people who need it not who can pay."?

I mean, you guys have universal healthcare. Is there some rampant discrimination against the poor? I mean, I know if your poor your MUCH more likely to die of random diseases in the UK but I thought that was just due to the fact that the poor usually have a worse lifestyle.

It's the Liberal Democrats' and Conservatives' job to complain about what Labour are doing. And Gordon Brown has a newfound obsession with agreeing with everything the Lib Dems say.

Having said that, people being denied treatment which they need due to lack of funds is quite a serious problem within the NHS, and one which all of the parties promise to tackle (of course, one of them has had 13 years to do so, which Clegg and Cameron point out every ten minutes).

To be fair on Labour, they have over trebled the budget of the NHS since they've got into power. Really, if tripling the budget of something doesn't solve the problem, I don't think there's much that can be done under the current ways of doing things.

Instead of the NHS, we should have forced HSAs coupled with optional "emergency" insurance (only for the rarest, and most costly of health issues) and have all services provided by the private sector. That way, everybody would get the drugs they always want, because they can decide what their money is spent on, rather than the Government, or a Trust.

This system has proven to be very successful in other countries, in both reducing the costs and increasing the quality of healthcare.

Unfortunately, this country seems to have some sort of love-in with the NHS, and none of the parties would ever propose anything like the above, for fear of political suicide. However, the NHS really is unsustainable, going by the crude measure of past trends and extrapolating them into the future, we can predict that by 2027, if nothing else changes, the NHS will cost roughly 22% of GDP - almost 1 in every 4 pounds, it's currently at around 10%.

I blame overpopulation, rising levels of obesity and Wii Fit